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Whenever I find an awesome photo, I save it to my "Wallpapers" folder and it becomes part of my desktop wallpaper slideshow. I can bring myself to do it with low res pics. Thank you for providing this!

Tilting the lens element rotates the plane of focus, throwing the top of the image out of focus.

See also large format cameras, camera movements, etc.

This is technically using the tilt motion backwards, though, as usually it is intended for deep and sharp focus throughout the image.

Shift is not used at all, this is a selective focus effect, or an imitation miniature. 'Tilt-Shift' as an effect is a misnomer, tilt and shift (and their perpendicular counterparts, swing and rise/fall) produce two completely different effects: Tilt/swing rotate the plane of focus while rise/fall distort the image to correct for converging lines of perspective.

You can tell it's real because of the bokeh created in the out of focus sky. Fake tilt shift is made by simply adding blur masks to the top and bottom of a picture, which does not take into account light points which would make bokeh.

Lens blur filters simulating bokeh are available, photoshop even has one built in.

A givaway to a real lens is the appearance of coma or flaring at the edges of bright points which is not seen here, but is not necessarily proof this is not taken with a lens.

It does not really matter, though, the effect is nearly the same either way, it is the use of the lenses for deep depth of focus that cannot be imitated with photoshop (at least not in a single frame).

I don't think a camera works too differently than a human eye (as far as focus goes). So if there are multiple light sources, you will see the ones you are focusing on as dots, and the ones that are still in your range of vision but are not being focused on, as big and blurry.

A tilt shift camera works very differently than the human eye. With your eyes, you'll see the lights at the distance you're focusing on in focus, and all others at a different distance will be out of focus.

This picture had a fake tilt-shift done to it, but was done poorly with the stars. Too bad we don't have the original to use as is or at least fix the faux-tilt-shift.

This is actually either a very good imitation of a the tilt motion's effect, or actually taken with a tilt-shift lens (I actually think the latter is likely given the slight distortion of the 'bokeh' at the top of the image, which a digital filter would not likely produce unless deliberately tweaked). The tilt motion literally rotates the plane of focus, throwing the top and bottom of the image out of focus, and the middle into focus. This makes sense if you take a moment to think about how a lens focuses.

Effectively, the lens focuses the entire scene in three dimensions, in miniature, on the other side of the lens. By moving the lens back and forth, the scene is pushed back and forth through the film/sensor plane, bringing different parts into focus.

If you tilt the lens, the little scene is tilted too, and now parts of the lens are closer than others to the film plane, and the scene is rotated, so that parts at different depths are focused onto the film plane.

Effectively, when cranked as far as it will go, and the aperture is opened up wide, the scene ends up with infinity focus in the middle, and the top and bottom are out of focus, irrespective of distance into the scene, and just like the gradient blur filter.

It's not necessarily illogical, and it could have been done with a lens. Tilting the lens changes the plane of focus, so if it's tilted backwards, the plane of focus at the top of the image would be close to the camera, making infinity out of focus.

That makes sense - except that all the stars are in the same plane. The ones at the top of the picture are the same distance as the ones near the horizon. This is not like other tilt-shift pics where the ground can be further/closer. Stars are too far away to be affected by tilt-shift. Heck, clouds are too far away for that to happen.

Stars are not "too far away" to be affected by a lens tilted relative to the sensor. The stars are in the same plane, but the plane of focus is tilted at an angle relative to that plane and to the sensor plane. This causes part of the plane of stars to be out of focus.

It's the same principle as tilt images of the ground. Parts of an image that would normally be within the same plane of focus are rendered out of focus because the plane of focus has been tilted. This is what causes the effect.

For example, the tree in this image would normally all be (roughly) within focus; because the lens has been tilted to the side, parts of it are now vastly out of focus. (Sample image from this lens review, and more technical detail here).

The first man to climb this mountain went by the name of Lorenzo von Matterhorn. When he returned from the climb, the locals named the mountain in honor of him. He then returned to his medical practice by day and service as a CIA informant in the Russian mafia at night.